• plyth@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Do we know if autism is genetic? Otherwise the question is not entirely wrong. There could be a cultural influence that we should figure out.

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      5 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the factors is ‘we stopped beating kids’. Back in ye olden days, they’d hit kids until they stopped being ‘weird’. You obviously can’t do that today.